Agri-loans without security disbursed among farmers

Countrywide Desk

Sixteen marginal and landless female farmers of Sadar Wednesday received Taka 20,000 each as easy-term agriculture loans without any security.

The loan recipient women are members of Thengonmari Mohila Farmers' Group (TMFG) and Langolgaon Mohila Farmers' Group (LMFG) under Dhakka-mara union in Sadar upazila in Panchagarh, a press release said on Wednesday, reports BSS. Dhakkamara branch of RAKUB disbursed the loans at a ceremony held on TMFG office premises.

The loan recipient female farmers will pay back the received amounts within the next six months at only 4.50 per cent inertest rates after cultivating early variety of potato.

The beneficiary farmers are improving livelihoods with the assistance of the Improving Food Security Governance in South and Southeast Asia.